Example sentences of "was [adj] [to-vb] her [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 The day her mother was due to put her in an institution Ursula Findlay , a nurse from Gloucestershire visited the ward .
2 In the early stages he was content to keep her towards the rear of the field as Teleprompter — also attempting a mile and a half for the first time — took his accustomed role of front-runner .
3 She ignores me , whining about how he was supposed to meet her at the Bullet 's Head .
4 ‘ I was glad to see her at the pictures with you , ’ Anne said .
5 When she returned to Swans ' Meadow , she found Ursula had embarked on a cold-blooded drinking bout and was reluctant to accompany her into the garden , the one venue where Charlotte felt she could safely disclose what had happened .
6 The male did not bother her at all after spawning , so I was able to leave her in the Mbuna colony until she was ‘ near term ’ — and all the fry were this time normal — all 120+ of them .
7 She was the one sister who was sympathetic to him ; that is , when he was able to detach her from the others .
8 ‘ He was able to introduce her to a lot of people but her real ambition is to be a movie star , not an actress on the stage .
9 She was taking a secretarial course , and I was able to tell her about the importance of that work in hospital .
10 Christina was pleased to get her into the car without being mobbed , and drove quickly out of town and on to the coast-road .
11 Had it been Alex Household who had been shot , the situation would have been different , because she so patently disapproved of him , but with Michael Banks as the victim , it was difficult to cast her in the role of murderer .
12 It was difficult to see her through the dazzling spurts of fire ; she seemed to be less and less there .
13 The sound of merriment emanating from the hall jangled her nerves , the sight of the courting couples pressed against the wall was enough to bring her to the edge of tears again .
14 The very sight of the sign at the head of the platform , shabby and tourist and third class though it was compared with that of the Golden Arrow at the other end of the station , was enough to raise her to a state she had never reached before , and as the train moved south , she sat in her seat and stared out of the window as though in a trance .
15 One hour alone with Kathy was enough to send her up the wall .
16 But before writing to her friend of the matter , the queen-dowager debated whether or not it was necessary to burden her with the knowledge .
17 I do not know where Henry Green picked up the erroneous information that Ivy had been a governess , but thinking of some of her sibylline utterances it was tempting to imagine her as a royal and imperial governess at Thebes and Mycenae .
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